Archive for December 2007
Inventor Solves Age-Old Mystery Of Missing Socks
PR WEB: You’ve completed the weekly wash and as you’re pairing up socks for the drawer, you discover one or more have mysteriously disappeared. Sound familiar? Well, worry no more because a clever entrepreneur from San Francisco has devised a creative solution to this irritating phenomenon. Edwin Heaven is the inventor of THROX, the first [...]
I was running some errands today when I passed a public storage business. On their sign out front they offered “Santa Clausets” for customers to hide/store gifts until Christmas for just $10. I thought to myself, what a fantastic idea! My guess is that the storage business is a little slow in the month of [...]
Video: Here Comes Another Bubble!
Sung to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” this music video by the San Francisco-based Richter Scales is pure genius.
Fortune Small Business: Isaac Daniel will never forget the call alerting him that his 8-year-old son had disappeared from his school bus queue. Daniel was in New York City on a business trip and immediately jumped on a plane home to Atlanta – only to learn that his boy had sneaked back into school. “He [...]
Press Banner: Jerry Toste is only 21 and seems to have a perpetual smile on his face. He should — his low-tech startup, Cheap Hauling, is on everyone’s lips: Those trucks are everywhere. Toste is grossing $800,000 per year after 1½ years in business, not bad for a guy who decided that “college and I [...]
Valerie Khoo at MySmallBusiness: When I first started out as an entrepreneur, I worked out of home. One of the best pieces of advice I received was: “Get out of your pyjamas as soon as possible.” In other words, even though you are working from home, you need to change your mind-set and start the [...]
Kitsap Sun: Barbara Reininger is baking up a business, and she hopes this holiday season will be the starter. The Bainbridge mom, operating My Kids’ Cookies, is beginning to sell her cookies not only online, but here at home, too. She produces eight varieties of chocolate chip cookies, each as big as her dream to [...]
Two Moms Redefine Security Blanket
RGJ.com: A solution is on the way for babies who have unsafe and temperamental sleeping habits. Two Washoe Valley residents have spent the past few years developing the Guardian Sleeper for infants who get too warm or too cold at night or have habits of rolling onto their stomachs or kicking bedding over their heads. [...]
Budapest-In-A-Bag Shop Opened By Artistic New Moms
Caboodle.hu: Travelers and locals in search of an “authentic” Hungarian souvenir can now confidently pass-up kitsch trinkets in favor of something more artistic, contemporary and usable with the opening of Bolt on Kertész utca 43-44. While it isn’t for everyone – geared to those who’d prefer a recycled Hungarian bicycle-tire-belt to a flowery doily – [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at One Man Band. My favorites: Why Starbucks Doesn’t Franchise The Future of Media and Advertising 4 Tips For Becoming A More Productive Entrepreneur The Single Most Important Question For Any New Business Idea
Poll: Why Are You An Entrepreneur?
Which of the following most closely explains why you are (or want to be) an entrepreneur? You want to make more money. You have no other alternatives. You want to work fewer hours. You want to have flexible work hours. You believe you can create more interesting work for yourself than others can create for [...]
iPod Nano Giveaway, Plus Survey
In addition to all of the books I’m giving away this month, I’ve also teamed up with goWholesale to giveaway an Apple iPod Nano this week! goWholesale wants to better understand how you use the internet to source products and services for your business. The iPod Nano will go to the person who leaves a [...]
Rhonda Abrams in USA Today: Chocolate is more than just my favorite food group. Chocolate, as an industry, is booming, sweet with opportunities for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Like most food specialty businesses, there are few barriers to entry for a chocolate company. Start-up costs can be low; in some states, you can even start [...]
A Retired Executive Wants to Help You Start A Business
NY Times: The saying that nothing good in life is free may be true most of the time. But Martin R. Lehman’s little office in Manhattan is one of the exceptions. Mr. Lehman, 84, is a volunteer for Counselors to America’s Small Business, or Score (it used to be called Service Corps of Retired Executives), [...]
My Favorite Books of 2007: Lies Startups Tell Themselves to Avoid Marketing
I have this friend who’s been trying to start a business for years. It’s sad, because he actually think’s he’s in business. He’s incredibly smart, and has developed a very interesting technology, but try as I might, he won’t follow my rules and just get out there and try to sell his product. He still [...]
People are always asking me for new ways to make money online, and I’ve recently come up with a new answer: Sitepoint’s Established Websites for Sale. Everyday people post large and small web businesses for sale. I don’t necessarily recommend looking for something to buy, though. I suggest that you read it for ideas! Here [...]
